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Brett and Kate McKay<br />
and emotions boosts your emotional and physical health and sense of<br />
well-being.<br />
Especially as men, we often tend to keep things bottled up.<br />
Journaling provides a excellent outlet to let go of those things that are<br />
bothering or worrying us.<br />
How to Journal<br />
1. Pick a medium. If you’ve never journaled or if you have previously,<br />
but fell off the wagon, the first thing you need to decide is what kind<br />
of journal you’re going to keep. There are basically two different types<br />
of journal mediums: analog and digital.<br />
Analog journals, the paper and pen variety, are what we traditionally<br />
think of when we think of journals. You can use something as<br />
basic as a spiral-bound notebook and a Bic pen or something as fancy<br />
as a hand-bound leather journal and a fountain pen. Just do what<br />
works for you.<br />
With the advent of computers, many people have gone digital<br />
with their journaling. The digital world offers a plethora of options to<br />
record your daily happenings and thoughts. Here’s a list of possible<br />
desktop digital tools in which to keep your journal:<br />
• Word Processor. Pretty basic. Just open up Word or OpenOffice<br />
Writer and start clickity clackin’ away.<br />
• TextEditor/Notepad. Just open up the text editor for your operating<br />
system, call the file “journal.txt,” and start writing. Date<br />
each entry. If you’re using Notepad, here’s a nifty little hack to<br />
automatically insert the date into your journal entry.<br />
• JDarkroom. JDarkroom is a free Java-based text editor. What<br />
makes it different from other text editors is that it takes up the<br />
entire screen for distraction free writing. I’ve used it before, and<br />
it’s actually pretty nice. It works on any platform.<br />
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